Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz is a professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Political Science. In addition, he is co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School and the Director of Academic Research. Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He has been an advisor on science, technology and innovation policies to multinational corporations, governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, TEKES, IFC, Fundación Chile, the United Nations and the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation. In 2001, he was awarded the GTRC 75th Anniversary Innovation Award for Public Service, Leadership, and Policy for this work. In 2008, Breznitz was selected as a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow. Breznitz spent eight years in Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as a professor in the Scheller College of Business, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy before moving to Toronto in 2013. In an earlier life he founded and served as a CEO of a small software company.